Smithsonian's History Explorer Resources Related To "The Choate Family: American Colonists"http://historyexplorer.si.edu/rss?key=resourcesSmithsonian's History Explorer Resources Related To "The Choate Family: American Colonists"Living in the Atlantic World 1450-1800http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=1922http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=1922<p>Students will learn how Atlantic-based trade shaped modern world history and life in America, and explore the web of maritime connections between Western Europe, western and central Africa, and the Americas that made up the Atlantic world in this section of <em>On the Water: Stories from Maritime America</em>, an online exhibition. Topics covered are the tobacco and sugar trades, the Middle Passage and the transatlantic slave trade, and the piracy that plagued the Caribbean Sea and North American coast during this period.</p>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:58:14 GMTGo Back in Timehttp://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=722http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=722<p>In this interactive game, students will match primary source materials and museum artifacts to the appropriate time period in order to learn about the everyday lives of Americans from different eras of our nation's history.&nbsp; This activity is one of the educational resources included in the online exhibition entitled <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/house/">Within These Walls</a>.</p>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 15:39:30 GMTWithin These Walls Homepagehttp://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=724http://historyexplorer.si.edu/resource/?key=724<p>Students will learn how the Smithsonian acquired the house at 16 Elm Street Ipswich, Massachusetts and saved more than a dozen family stories and 200 years of American social history. They will also learn some of the methods historians and curators used to learn about this house's past, the ways that it changed over time, and the people who lived in it.</p>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:29:07 GMT